WW2 Memorials

Hi all,

I have placed this topic here since I thought it suited best, but if it should be somewhere else feel free to move it admins!

Almost a month ago I went to paris on holiday, and on my visit to the Arc de Triomphe I discovered memorial plates on the ground. They had these for all the wars France has fought in, but I took just one picture (it would make no sense photographing all of them), the one for ww2.



Translation as follows:
To the soldiers in the armies,
To the people fighting in the resistance,
who died for France
1939- 1945

 

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Good thinking PP, 'Rats of Tobruk' memorial at Alrewas Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire.

 

1) Australian-Greek Memorial -- for the dead of the Greek campaign -- situated in Australia.

2) General view of the area around the Memorial (situated in top of fort Roupel) for the Greek soldiers that died defending the fort -- part of Metaxas Line in Macedonia.

PS; Unfortunately, i can't provide any closer pictures at the moment...

 

Here is the old topic on this subject, with several other monuments:
http://www.fun-online.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1183

Here's some monuments I've run into on more recent holidays (these were taken last year in the Ardennes and Luxembourg). Bottom one is situated just outside a tiny village called Amonines; the top two are right beside the main crossroads of Marnach, near Clervaux.

 

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Dam Busters at Woodhall Spa. Lincs.

 

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Memorial to RAF and RCAF within 100 yds. of my house. Wellington bomber crashed Jan. 1945, memorial placed by local people in Jan.2006.
Small, local granite, visited by RCAF and surviving relatives, a little bit of Canada by 'Sketchley Brook.

 

Yeah I´ve been looking all over for that thread to post mine in, but I didn't expect it to be in the members lounge.
*never would have thought of that...*


Great pictures, merlin. Thanks for sharing!

 

In addition to merlin, there is also a "Rats of Tobruk" memorial in Canberra.





Regards,
Che.

 

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Here is another lonely memorial to a Lancaster shot down by 'Luftwaffe intruder', many of these lone bomber memorials across the UK. This is at Ulcby Cross, Lincolnshire.

 

Kokoda track and 2/16th Bn AIF Memorials in Perth.

 

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Here is one you WW2 'Favourite Movie' posters might recognise. The Bridge at Remagen, now a memorial museum.

 

Here is memorial for Raate-road :



Airpic from area: One stone for each fallen soldier:



Close shot:




All pics from this site: http://heninen.net/raatteentie/kuvia/monumentti_e.htm